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Good trees, bad trees
Submitted by MLewyn on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 3:11pmNormally, trees on a street are a good thing. Good trees (like this row of trees in Forest Hills, Queens) provide shade for a sidewalk. But not all trees are so-well behaved. Where there is no sidewalk, a tree can actually endanger pedestrians by preventing them from walking on gra... read more »
Andrew Howard's Better Block Parties
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 8:19amIt is sometimes objected to new urbanism that it’s somehow inauthentic - that streets where the houses have front porches and communities built around a town center may have more to do with stage design than the way real people live today.
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Complete Streets or Complete Networks?
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 7:19amThe “complete streets” idea - the concept that streets need to be designed for all users, including pedestrians and cyclists as well as SUVS and fire trucks - has caught on well in recent years. Maybe it’s caught on too well, in fact.
That was one of the messages in the NU 202 session on “Im... read more »